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Fairhaven Bay Renovation by Murdough Design

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"Fairhaven Bay" is a renovation and addition to a 1950s mid-century residence located in Lincoln, MA. The project was a collaborative effort with Richardson Associates, Landscape Architects. The design challenge involved editing and synthesizing numerous additions to the original house, which had become increasingly incoherent.

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SOM completes restoration of Lever House, a midcentury Manhattan office icon

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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has announced the completion of a recent restoration project that’s meant to breathe new life into their historic Lever House design in Manhattan. Reed Hilderbrand has also contributed a comprehensive new landscape program for the building that connects the plaza area to third-floor terraces.

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Post Company restores hotel known as birthplace of Apple's Macintosh computer

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The moody lobby of La Playa Hotel features dark coffered ceilings and textured plaster walls It was taken over in 2012 by Marc & Rose Hospitality – which also operates the recently overhauled High Country Motor Lodge in Flagstaff, Arizona – and reopened in October 2023 following a long renovation process. "As

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SOM completes restoration of New York's historic Lever House

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US-based architecture studio SOM has completed a restoration of the Lever House seventy years after the studio originally designed the historic New York City office building. This renovation reactivates Lever House for the 21st century," said SOM partner Chris Cooper.

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Kauh restores historic Spanish park to be a "palimpsest of its evolution"

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Spanish architecture practice Kauh has completed the renovation of La Hoya Park in the historical centre of Almería, restoring a series of stepped, dry stone terraces on the site of a 13th-century town. For the planting, protected species found on the site were maintained and accompanied by new fruit and mulberry trees.

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Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx restore 1960s home in Belgium

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Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx have refurbished a 1960s home in Belgium Over time, numerous additions to the home and its garden had distracted from its original structures and their relationship to the landscape, and so its new owners tasked Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx with restoring this condition.

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Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy

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Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a former farmstead in northern Italy , restoring and extending a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings to create Cascina, a new home and studio. Upstairs, the restoration of the barn roof was prioritised so one could immediately feel and connect to the building's heritage," she added.